We've been working on it. A simple tap to jump to the top is pretty easy--things get tricky when you start adding complications like "jump back into the feed" or "navigate up a level," which require a more sophisticated architecture from the ground up. It is in active development, though, so we hope to have a prototype out soon enough.
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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I've just had the quickest of glances through the code. Is the gesture for opening the user switcher the only reason for reimplementing the tab bar? It sound's like you're rebuilding a lot of functionality that you get for free (iirc) with the native tab bar.
Unfortunately the system (SwiftUI) tab bar doesn’t come with this behaviour for some reason.
I don't remember who wrote this, but a while ago some team member stated in this sub they had ~merged a PR~ a PR in the works that implements the described behavior. Perhaps there are other issues that emerged from this?
Edit: Clarification based on reply
Yea! There’s a draft PR that I left sitting around waiting for some 0.19 lemmy changes and also because the feature was triggering some undesirable performance issues not related to the tab bar itself.
Tbh it’s gotten faster just by building against iOS 17, I’m probably going to finish it up and merge it in since so many of us want this 🙈
No worries, thanks for taking care of this and the explanation! :-) I certainly did not intend to complain in any way since I didn't even have time to look into the GitHub PRs myself
You good :p Would appreciate feedback when feature makes it out in the wild 🤓